Weekend Update 5/24/20

[up1950s]

https://nationaldaycalendar.com/memorial-day-last-monday-in-may/

[johnb]

I started to wire up the yard today, I soldered all of the feeders and ran the main bus. I only got one set of tracks wired (the main) before I ran out of connectors.

[mu26aeh]

Another trailer finished up today.  Waiting on new glue.  Something must have changed in the glue formula, I've always used CA for these, but now it's soaking in the paper and staining thru the front/print.  I've never had that problem before these recent ones.  Carlos from DigCom suggests scrapbooking glue so picking some up tomorrow.

[davefoxx]

My ‘ronaproject is fully functional and close to completion.  Just finish the ballast on the track under it, get some scenery roughed in behind it, and add a little kudzu to it, and the trestle will be ready for permanent installation:



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[MK]

https://nationaldaycalendar.com/memorial-day-last-monday-in-may/

Interesting.  I didn't know about the raising, lowering, then raising again of the flag on Memorial Day.

[spookshow]

Finished up the roof on the elevator office and then spent some time detailing the scale -











-Mark

[BCR 570]

The chip car campaign continues.  I am making good progress on the ends for the six Vancouver Iron cars; ribs are now on:




More in the build thread:  https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=49577.15


The nine HSC-RMC chip cars are now off the assembly jig and awaiting ends:




Hoping to make more progress this weekend,

Tim

[seusscaboose]

i watched a video
recommend it to you closet Disney fans
the "free" view ends in a few hours though...  so ya better jump on it.

https://www.facebook.com/WDFMuseum/videos/695146824572688/

[Dave V]

Finally got around to finishing the install on the Tsunami2 for my first-generation MDC outside frame 2-8-0. She's no Blackstone but it's nice to know these old late 70s-era kits can be brought well into the 21st century. I detailed her to be a close approximation to D&RGW class C-25 #375. New Sagami can motor, LED headlight, NWSL gears, and Soundtraxx Tsunami2 DCC/sound.



I plan to put together a YouTube video at some point but for now if you want to see and hear her running you can go to my HOn3 RGS public Facebook page where I've put the video here:

https://tinyurl.com/y9zs6ge5 ...if you're not accustomed to Facebook videos, check the sound icon in the lower right to make sure it's not muted.

The Ridgway shops have turned out another ex-C&S "Miller" boxcar with steel underframe.  This is a Grandt Line kit. They used to come with very accurate decals, but the two-pack that I got at the 2017 National Narrow Gauge Convention didn't. The dimensional data in the Microscale set is too wide but I don’t think it’ll keep me up at night.



A narrow gauge “foobie.” This is an MDC Old Timer tank car with an ancient “Narrow Gauge Car Shops” conversation kit for HOn3. It included a new frame and trucks. The instructions were more than vague on installing the brake rigging so I winged it and hoped for the best. The trucks that come with the kit are heavy cast steel—not typical of a narrow gauge Conoco tank car—but I replaced them with some Micro Trains arch bar trucks which are a closer to match to what the Conoco narrow gauge tank cars got. I changed the car number to “CONX 9” since it’s kind of freelanced and there are no photos available of a CONX 9. Sisters 8, 10, and 11 are well-documented so I chose to avoid sinning against the prototype.



Toward better coal loads... The one on the right was a first attempt from last year, made of extruded Styrpfoam and covered with crushed coal. It was too tall for the prototype (it would represent an overloaded car) and it was a tight fit. The new one on the left is made of balsa, again covered in crushed coal. It has a machine screw in it so it can be removed from the car with a magnet. I made quite a few of them including for the drop-bottom gons as well.

[chicken45]

Damnit I hate following @Dave V 's posts.
But here's MG. I replaced the comically large stock roof pattern with one I got from textures.com. @Ed Kapuscinski recommended it.

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[peteski]

Damnit I hate following @Dave V 's posts.
But here's MG. I replaced the comically large stock roof pattern with one I got from textures.com. @Ed Kapuscinski recommended it.

Looks a bit washed out, or soft  on detail (at least in the photo), but much better than the giant tiles.

This begs a question:  Why do manufacturers of otherwise fairly decent kit do this (oversize roof shingles)?  It looks to be designed on a computer, and printed in-house by the manufacturer.  It would not have cost any more effort or money to draw those shingles about third as large.  I just don't get it.  Another  one of this what were they (or in this case Russ) thinking?!  Come on - i is not like N scale is new to them.

Or is this an attempt by them to get the modeler to do something extra, rather than just assembling the kit? 

[SkipGear]

Sure it wasn't a slate tile roof originally?

[chicken45]

Looks a bit washed out, or soft  on detail (at least in the photo), but much better than the giant tiles.

This begs a question:  Why do manufacturers of otherwise fairly decent kit do this (oversize roof shingles)?  It looks to be designed on a computer, and printed in-house by the manufacturer.  It would not have cost any more effort or money to draw those shingles about third as large.  I just don't get it.  Another  one of this what were they (or in this case Russ) thinking?!  Come on - i is not like N scale is new to them.

Or is this an attempt by them to get the modeler to do something extra, rather than just assembling the kit? 

The same reason the walls don't line up and meet.

Anyways, I do plan on dusting powders on top of all this at the end, but the roof, depending on which picture you look at and when, it can look very different.





There's as few other photos I have in books that are lighter in nature.

Sure it wasn't a slate tile roof originally?

I'm not actually sure, but I have to work with what I have, and the texture I decided on was slate. I chose it because it was tile-able and could be repeated and scaled. It also didn't have any obvious patterns on them that would look random 1:1, but when you scale it down and tile it, that one dark tile on the third row becomes very obvious when it repeats itself three times.

[eja]

DFF

Dave,   who makes that PC gon?

[davefoxx]

Dave,   who makes that PC gon?

Tangent Scale Models.  It’s an HO scale Penn Central Class G43C 52’ gondola.

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